Open Access at Washington University

Open access e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Preprints, working papers, some peer reviewed journal articles

Final, peer-reviewed author manuscripts by scientists who receive research funding from NIH and other funding agencies. Most materials are not Open Access by the strictest definitions, but they are freely available within 12 months of publication.

Allows you to search for repositories by subject. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.

This is a list of OA disciplinary respositories (also called central or subject repositories). Unless otherwise noted, they accept relevant deposits regardless of the author's institutional affiliation.

On your personal or departmental web servers, blogs, etc.; a possible interim tactic. Ask your subject librarian about self-archiving in WU's Open Scholarship

Browsable by subject

with no author fees initially; charges to begin Jan. 2017

"Open Science journal for life scientists;" features open peer review in added to open access.

OA journals at Springer

Publish OA articles within traditional toll-access journals, for a fee.

OA journals at Wiley